{"id":216337,"date":"2020-02-26T11:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/02\/26\/kudos-to-prohibition-a-curse-upon-nagaland\/"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:43:47","slug":"kudos-to-prohibition-a-curse-upon-nagaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/26\/kudos-to-prohibition-a-curse-upon-nagaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to \u2018Prohibition: A curse upon Nagaland\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Apropos Nagaland Post, dated Feb. 26, 2020 entitled Prohibition: A curse upon Nagaland, I wish to congratulate Kahuto for his excellent write up against total prohibition. Kahuto has so convincingly highlighted what I had been thinking of writing for the past two three years. As a recovering alcoholic myself and also with many of my own family members involved in the same problem, I do sympathize with the Churches (NBCC) in their call for total prohibition. But the question is: “Has total prohibition solved the alcoholic problem or worsened it?” Here, I don’t have to elaborate with arguments and statistical records of past history because Kahuto has already done that. On my part, I am convinced that diluted and concocted mixtures of spurious alcohol which is being consumed by thousands of Nagas have already killed thousands of Nagas over the years of total prohibition. Taken in small doses of quarters and halves, the consumer does not immediately die. However, the same quantities taken for months or years are slowly killing our youth and older people too. For evidence of what I am saying here, just take a careful look at the faces of our young people who are daily taking these spurious liquors. Their faces first turn black and then at the point of death, their faces become greenish black and soon they are gone. Forever etched in my memory are the faces and the fates of two of my friends who after consuming four five bottles of the spurious MC Rum suddenly died in the Civil Hospital spurting blood through their mouths and their noses. Both of them had had serious quarrels’ with their spouses and in anger had resorted to over drinking for just two three days. I am sure they would still be alive if they had, instead of the diluted MC, drunk the standard distilled alcohol which has not been available in our markets for the past many years. In this context, I am sure our Churches have every good intention in calling for total prohibition for sale of alcohol but their good intentions are back firing on our young people.<\/p>\n

I therefore feel that there has to be a real re-thinking on this issue of total prohibition both by the Church and the whole Naga public. In the case of Delhi, it was the wives of drinkers who agitated and brought about total prohibition in Delhi. But when these wives realized that their husbands did not return home from neighbouring Haryana where they had gone to drink because it was no more available in Delhi, they themselves requested the Delhi government to lift total prohibition from Delhi. When it was available in Delhi, their husbands, though late and drunk, always came back home to sleep with their wives and children. But when alcohol was banned in Delhi, their husbands made Haryana their second homes!<\/div>\n
Kaka D. Iralu<\/div>\n
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